ARGENTINA: In a Son's Name

High-minded José de San Martín, the good
soldier who liberated Argentina and Chile (with the aid of Bernardo
O'Higgins) from the yoke of Spain, died 97 years ago in poverty and
self-imposed exile. Argentines have been trying to make up for it ever
since; equestrian statues of him stand in almost every plaza. In 1880
his body was brought back from France, where he had gone in bitter
disillusionment over political wrangling, and entombed in Buenos Aires
Cathedral. From Spain last week, in two finely worked caskets, came the
bones of his...